Chart Of The Day: The World's Scariest Divergence

We like to keep our charts just simple enough that a PhD in Economics can understand them; and so we present what must be the scariest chart in the world for much of the developing (and for that matter developed) world. Demand for food is rising inexorably (as is the demand for fuel) but at the same time supply is falling rapidly as the availability of arable land per capita plunges. Perhaps this (along with central bank liquidity spillovers) explains the 'paradigm' shift in staple prices. Food for thought? (pun intended)

Pack whatever toys you showed up with and go home. You've been dismissed.

Always the same with the deniers... it's a handy excuse for not learning simple math*; it's a handy excuse for expecting others to bail out their sorry asses when reality does in fact appear.

* Denying there are limits means that you HAVE to say that there are no physical limitations on earth, that, in essence, the earth isn't a sphere (I'd tried thinking about this, that because our eyes invert all images that perhaps we are on the inside of a curve rather than the outside- if so, then there'd be a shot for a more substantial supply of stuff being sucked from the earth [as there would be a near infinite strata below us]). Anyway, easier test is to cram everyone into YOUR home, because, well, there are no physical limits so everyone should fit fine.

Where the fuck do you people come from? For you I'm thinking that I'd have to root for Monsanto for ONCE in my life...

Wasn't that a scene in John Carpenter's remake of 'The Thing's? I think Kurt Russel's character had to use a sawed off, double barreled 12ga to " repulse " it. Maybe douse it in av-gas and burn it's hide off. Yeah, I'm sure it was a then juvenile Big Sis. Today? You'd need kiloton heat to off that nasty, old, Leszard Queen.

i think the 47 million ebt users probably have a bigger effect on our food cost....when it is not your money ,you dont care the cost...so take ur local grocer...he demos his customers thru some discount card and sees how and what they buy. than adjust the pricing on these products accordingly.....

Clowns to the left of me jokers to the right... Suckers on the "left" fell for this shit which was being pushed from the "right" (the corn lobby, which got a HUGE push to power thanks to Ag Sec Earl Butz [who also promoted HFCS]).

I've spent a chunk of my life trying to push back on ethanol/biofuels. As Willie Nelson says, it's (biofuels) fine if it stays ON the farm.

Quite right Popo! Bernanke is the focus of evil in the modern world. The people whose interests he serves are also part of this circle of evil.

Bernanke is focused on flooding money into banks and into stock equity. This in order to reward a certain class of people, while all this liquidity he hands out gets poured into speculation on food and fuel, which are subject to real world pressures of supply that are made ever so much worse by the Bernanke free money.

Bernanke could end up killing millions through lack of food and fuel for many a nation's lower classes of people. Bernanke sleeps well at night because his circle of bankers, hedge funders and speculators like private equity feast on the trillions he hands out to them.

Bernanke is an evil man, and serves greedy evil interests. We know who stands behind Bernanke, and the giant USA police state and vast war making potential are there to be the enforcers of the Bernanke world order. To any person world wide, I tell you that if you stand up to fight against Bernanke and his system, they will kill you, or send you to a secret CIA torture facility in which you will be beaten and water boarded into confession of crimes you did not do.

Well... one KEY issue is that there are no real investments out there anymore because there's not sufficient energy to fuel growth. Investing in food (which is human fuel) isn't evil or stupid. And as someone who bought some Ag land I can hardly ridicule others for focusing on food. If people are so worried about all this then rather than complain, grow food. Sooner or later the BIG corporate Ag model will breakdown, whether from over-speculation or not.

So far I've built my garden boxes, a new shed for garden tools and whatnot, planted a half dozen blueberry bushes, a bee hive, and added a hlaf dozen fruit trees to the four that were on my property. Coming in spring, poultry pen/housing, rabbit pen/housing (so they can free-range a bit), more blueberries, at least one more hive, and three more fruit trees. Actually, I'll plant the trees this fall and put in my rainwater collection system.